Paper 2, Section II, F
Let be the sample space of a probabilistic experiment, and suppose that the sets are a partition of into events of positive probability. Show that
for any event of positive probability.
A drawer contains two coins. One is an unbiased coin, which when tossed, is equally likely to turn up heads or tails. The other is a biased coin, which will turn up heads with probability and tails with probability . One coin is selected (uniformly) at random from the drawer. Two experiments are performed:
(a) The selected coin is tossed times. Given that the coin turns up heads times and tails times, what is the probability that the coin is biased?
(b) The selected coin is tossed repeatedly until it turns up heads times. Given that the coin is tossed times in total, what is the probability that the coin is biased?